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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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I have to admit that I only read War and Peace when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
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... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.
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National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.
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Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
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Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.
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The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.
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Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.
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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
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It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.
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I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.
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A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.
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In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.
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